The folding chair for the lobby for the Taekwondo studio is complete. I got it finished up. Though a couple of bits took a few tries. I also got most of the hand target modeled. Complete with a strap. Yep.
So the chair. Where we left off was just after I got the seat complete. And everything in place. Sort of. The angles of the legs weren’t right so I did some testing to fine a good angle and adjusted where the seat piece fit, not too far back, not too far forward. Then it was time for the finer details, like the bolts and the hinge and the caps on the ends of the legs.
I started with the caps for the bottom of the legs since that would be fairly easy. It was. 
Mostly it’s just a copy of the bottom section of the legs and then scaled out. Of course and edge loop or two or three had to be added to keep the form when I applied turbosmooth. But it worked out.
I figured the next easy part would be the bolts. So I started with the bolts at the seat. By getting these roughly in place it gave me a better idea of where and how to place the hinge bracket piece.
I didn’t get right to that hinge. I was on a roll with the bolts so I got those all placed and figured out before dealing with the hinge.
Then the hinge. I was really just delaying the part that I had already figured out was going to be my bigger challenge. So I tried to get everything done before I started on the caps for the top of the back legs.
If you notice in these pictures the tops of the back legs look a little weird. That’s because the cylinder doesn’t have the top face. In the real world you would see the inside of the tube but I don’t have it set to display both faces so you can basically see through the tube. It looks strange. So I needed to make the caps that go on top of those ends. That would look better and take care of the see-through faces.
It took me three tries to get those caps to work the way I wanted. One of the problems I 
had was that I had no sections on the end of the cylinder that I created the cap from. So no geometry to deform. I tried a few things to get me some geometry to work with and finally settled on a solution. Then there was the deformation part. The cap isn’t really angled at the center, it is sort of a 3/4 angle type thing and it’s a bit concave to accept the other leg that is resting on it. So yeah. It was a challenge. But as you can see, I was finally triumphant.
I did go back in and do some refining on the seat back and gave it a little more of a contour. Once that was done, the only thing left of the modeling at that point was to make everything the same color. So now it looks prettier.
I know I mentioned the hand target is done. I’ll fill you all in about that in another post. I am a bit excited about it since I tried something new to create it, and it worked. So that will be something to look for soon.